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Death toll could be in hundreds

Friday 2 March 2018 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – There is still no official death toll from Papua New Guinea’s 7.5 magnitude earthquake, but as accounts of the damage start to filter through fears are growing that it could be hundreds of dead rather than dozens.


In search of tapa knowledge

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Local

Cook Islands Library and Museum manager Jean Mason departed Rarotonga for Atiu on Monday morning with two members from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C, with the goal of finding out more about tapa.

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Family mourning loss of 'idol'

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Local

The Cook Islands is mourning the loss of the “last of the old school Ariki” this week, after the passing of the man known as ‘Papa Tangaroa’.

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Mentors here to help 61 businesses

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Local

Three business mentors arrived in Rarotonga on Monday for a week as part of the annual Business Mentors programme.

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New candidate targets roads

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Local

Business man Nooroa George has thrown his hat into the ring on the state of the Rarotonga roads, questioning why all the money collected in vehicle fees never gets put into fixing the numerous potholes.

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Chinese are coming

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

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Stop neglecting Muri's roads

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,Wow, all it takes is a brief visit by New Zealand’s Prime Minister in a few weeks for the government’s road gang to swing into action resealing the inland roads around Nikao which lead to and from Tereora Stadium, where Ms Ardern is expected to open the new education facility at the country’s largest college.

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Oncoming election brings issues to the fore

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,


3D map made of Aitutaki

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Outer Islands

A Participatory 3-Dimensional (P3D) map of Aitutaki has been completed and handed over to the Aronga Mana and Aitutaki community after a three-member team from the Cook Islands National Environment Service (NES) travelled to the island for a week-long community workshop last month.

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Busy 2 days

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Politics

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will have an action packed two-day stay in Rarotonga as part of her 2018 Pacific Mission.


Who gets to decide if Bridges is 'Maori enough?'

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – The National Party has elected its first Maori leader, Simon Bridges. And to make it even more significant, deputy leader Paula Bennett is also Maori.


National selects first Maori leader

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Regional

NEW ZEALAND – Simon Bridges says he hopes Maori can be proud the National Party has elected their first Maori leader.


Still struggling after cyclone

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Regional

TONGA – Two weeks after the category four cyclone scored a direct hit on the capital Nuku’alofa and the main island of Tongatapu, up to 50,000 people are still without power and a consistent supply of clean drinking water.


'Significant damage' after earthquake

Thursday 1 March 2018 | Published in Regional

PAPUA NEW GUINEA – Reports of significant and widespread damage are slowly emerging from earthquake-hit central Papua New Guinea.


'Only righteousness exalts a nation'

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor, Kia Orana to the people of the Cook Islands. Some weeks ago New Zealand’s One News and World News on Cook Islands TV and Vaka TV carried some shocking news items to many Christians throughout the world, and we here in the Cook Islands were very silent on the matters of the New Zealand leader’s support of banishing the name of the Lord Jesus Christ from Parliamentary prayer , and her support for homosexuality.


Police apology sought for bench warrant blunder

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,


The remarkable Cook Islands

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,

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Taking the lead on the tax amnesty

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Letters to the Editor

Regarding James Beer’s ‘Where is the money?’ letter to the editor in yesterday’s CINews – if you want to be transparent and are asking for names to be revealed of who has benefitted from the tax amnesty, then maybe you can take the lead.

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Passengers stranded in Palmerston

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Outer Islands

A group of a dozen passengers bound for Pukapuka have been stranded on Palmerston Island for almost two weeks now and look likely to be there for at least another fortnight.

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Sheraton tenders imminent

Wednesday 28 February 2018 | Published in Local

Rumours are currently circulating in Rarotonga about who will win the rights for the Sheraton project in Vaimaanga.


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